Areas of Expertise
- Contemporary Russian culture
- Russian and Polish women's literature
- Early 19th century narrative fiction
- Gender
- Bakhtin
- Folklore
Education
- PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Indiana University
Publications
BOOK:
Polish Cinema Today: A Bold New Era in Film, Lexington Books (co-written with Beth Holmgren), 2021
ARTICLES:
“Big Rewards for the Small Screen: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. during Both Cold Wars,” Cold War II: Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia, ed. Tatiana Prorokova, U of Mississippi P 2020. 49-69
“Three Degrees of Exemplary Boyhood in Boris Kustodiev’s Soviet Paradise” The Pedagogy of Images, eds. Marina Balina and Serguei Oushakine, U of Toronto P 2021. 53-80
“Tolstoy’s Breasts or the Mammary Offensive,” Tolstoi and the Evolution of His Artistic World, eds. Joe Andrew and Robert Reid, Brill, 2021
SUNDRY:
Keynote address, “Toppling the Myth of Saintly Polish Womanhood and of Sacrosanct Russian Maternity,” at conference "Новые мифы современности. Голос женщин между Россией и Польшей. Международная конференция," University of Bologna, Italy, January 2021
“Re-Imagining Russia,” Interview with Stephen Norris for Havighurst Center at Miami University, YouTube, 17 March 2021
Advisory Board for fully funded 4-year project titled Mediated Feminism(s) in Contemporary Russia (FEMCORUS), undertaken by Saara Ratilainen and two colleagues at Tampere University, Finland 2021
